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cameron_surge.csv — Alternative measures of significant legislation. Courtesy of Professor Charles Cameron. Collected for: "Divided Government and the Legislative Productivity of Congress, 1945-94." William Howell, Scott Adler, Charles Cameron and Charles Riemann. Legislative Studies Quarterly, Vol. 25, No. 2 (May, 2000), pp. 285-312.

congress_data.dta - Our aggregated counts of significant legislation merged to some additional variables. Main file used for data analysis.

significant_legislation_database.csv - Significant legislation database at bill by bill level.

Stathis_LandMarkLegDataCombined112514.csv - Alternative measures of significant legislation


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div_gov_analysis_ssh.do - Main analysis file

div_gov_addl_graphics_ssh.do - Creates some additional graphics found in paper

div_gov_analysis_stathis_data_ssh.do - Reruns main analysis using alternative count of major legislation

mayhew_comparison_ssh.do - Creates graphics that compare our measures of significant legislation to other measures


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-Unzip folder
-Set paths in stata code to correct directory locations
-Execute code
-Note that tables and figures are output to folder "figs_ssh"


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-Stata 14